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The iPhone X may be Apple’s best phone, but it’s not perfect. Catch our first week impressions to hear what we love (and what we don’t!) about Apple’s very spicy new iPhone. Plus: our top reasons to NOT buy an iPhone X; how to use Apple Pay cash to pay your friends an fam; and catch our list of X-rated tips, aka the really useful iPhone X tips and tricks you haven’t heard about.

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Automatic Setup signs you into iCloud, Keychain, iTunes, the App Store, iMessage and FaceTime using your Apple ID, according to Apple. It also takes care of device settings like language, region, network, keyboard preferences, Siri and Home and health data.

The setup is reminiscent of setting up a new Apple Watch, but even easier.

Displaymate: iPhone X’s display resolution provides “significantly higher image sharpness” than can be analyzed by a person with normal 20/20 vision at a 12-inch viewing distance. DisplayMate said this means that it’s now “absolutely pointless” to increase the display resolution and pixels per inch of the iPhone any further, since there would be “no visual benefit” for users

“highest absolute color accuracy of any display we have ever tested,” with a display that is “visually indistinguishable from perfect.”

Apple’s new peer-to-peer payments system called Apple Pay Cash is finally rolling out to public beta testers today with the release of the public beta for iOS 11.2 beta 2 and watchOS 4.2 beta 2, giving iPhone and iPad users the ability to send money to each other electronically.

It lets you send money to each other using iMessage.

You can send up to $3,000 and the transaction is free if you use a debit card registered in your Apple Wallet.

Have a credit or debit card registered in your Apple Wallet

Be in the United States

Have two-factor authentication activated on your Apple ID

Use an iPhone 6 or newer

Both you and the receiver must be running iOS 11.2

If you meet the above requirements, a new app will show up in the iMessage Dock

Once you hit $500 in Apple Pay Cash transactions, you must verify your identity. To do so, you need to take a picture of your driver’s license or official state ID card, and provide some personal information (Social Security number and so on).

Thanks to Face ID, the iPhone X knows when its owner is looking at it, and can hide the content of your notifications until you do so. Now, if somebody else picks up your iPhone X and takes a peek at your incoming alerts, it will only see a list of the apps that have notifications for you.

X-rated Tips

How to teach FaceID to work more accurately

If Face ID doesn’t recognize your face, don’t reposition your face so it will accept it. Instead, type in the passcode so it will ad that position of your face to the accepted data set.

Activating multitasking The smallest swipe of the home bar will register that you want to command the home bar to either go home or multitask. Moment you stop moving you will begin multitasking.

Scroll to the top To quickly scroll to the top in any app, just double tap anywhere at the top of the screen (under the notch, or side of notch both work)

Adjust your notification privacy settings iPhone X has them hidden by default if your phone is locked. You can go to Settings>Notifications>Show Previews to make them visible when locked.